Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Vectorwise's special sauce -- its support for vector processing and microprocessor-level parallelization -- is increasingly catching on in a big way.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 14, 2012
Could predictive analytics be used as extensively in business as it is in baseball?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 7, 2012
Dynamic analytics describes an analytic use-model that emphasizes both discovery and iteration. The idea is to refine analytic discoveries by tweaking algorithms and queries.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 31, 2012
The industry seems to have settled on 3 Vs -- volume, variety, and velocity -- to describe the big data problem. What's missing? Let's start with another V: value.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 24, 2012
There's resistance to the use of agile concepts and methods in BI and DW. The reasons for this resistance, agile proponents argue, are misguided.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 24, 2012
As the BI industry comes to grip with the implications of cloud computing, big data, and a host of other disruptions, two companies are trying to stay ahead of reporting trends.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 17, 2012